# Backprop Summit

A summit on frontier models and AI infrastructure. It is for founders, investors, technical leaders, AI engineers, researchers, executives, and engineers building or securing agent runtimes.

- When: Tue, Nov 17, 2026 · 09:00–18:30 (America/Los_Angeles time)
- Where: San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, US, United States
- Format: In person
- Type: Summit
- Topics: AI, GenAI & LLMs, ML research
- For: Software engineers, AI & ML engineers, Data professionals, Researchers, CTOs & tech leads
- Price: Free
- Organizer: tokens&
- Register and details: https://luma.com/backprop

## About

A summit on frontier models and AI infrastructure.
backprop by tokens& brings together founders, investors, technical leaders, and AI engineers for a day of conversations on the technologies shaping the future of AI.
Hear directly from the teams advancing the frontier, what's working in production, and where the industry is headed.
What to expect
Expert keynotes, technical deep dives and panels and more throughout the day. Come early for breakfast, stay late for mingling and happy hour.

Speakers
Sam Bhagwat, Founder and CEO @ Mastra
Sara Hooker, Co-founder @ Adaption Labs
Michael Grinich, Founder @ WorkOS
Wes McKinney, Founder @ Kenn Software & Creator @ pandas/Apache Arrow
Michel Tricot, CEO & Co-Founder @ Airbyte
Gagan Bhat, Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic
Ethan Kurzweil - Co-Founder and Managing Partner @Chemistry
Chaked R. J. Sayedoff - Co-Founder @ SpecificAI
Nicholas (Nick) M. - Member of Product Staff @ Metaview
Robert Hommes, Founder @ Moyai
Saptarshi Banerjee, Sr. Applied AI Engineer @ OpenAI
Vineeth Kalluru, Gen AI Solutions Architect @ NVIDIA
Aditya Grover, Co-founder & CTO @ Inception Labs
Yaniv Markovski, Head of Ecosystem Engineering @ Nimble
Nikolay Rodionov - Co-Founder @Alpic
Simon Tiu, Senior VP Finance @ VGS
Saroop Bharwani, Co founder & CEO @ Senso.ai

Want to Speak? Apply here.


Who's in the Room
A curated summit for the engineers building agent runtimes and the engineers securing them. Engineers, researchers, founders, executives and investors…

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